Provides more than $8 million to help conserve Colorados natural resources  a 458% increase over current levels just for Colorado.

Provides an estimated $334.8 million in highway funding for Colorado

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Provides $391 million for programs and grants to help local fire departments and emergency services in Colorado and all across America with training, equipment, and fire fighting and lifesaving efforts.

Provides a $5.6 billion National Emergency Reserve to aid Colorado and other states struck by disasters.

Increases funding over current levels to more than $21 million to help more Colorado children awaiting adoption find loving homes faster.

The Presidents Budget Funds Important Priorities for Colorado:

Improving Education. Provides the Education Department with the largest percentage spending increase of any federal department (11.5% or $4.6 billion) and triples funding for childrens reading programs.

Protecting Social Security. Locks away every penny of the $2.6 trillion Social Security surplus for Social Security.

Preserving Medicare. Spends every dime of Medicare receipts over the next 10 years only for Medicare, increases funding over the next year by $21 billion, and modernizes Medicare with an integrated prescription drug benefit.

Strengthening Defense. Improves quality of life of our troops and their families and begins the transition to a 21st century force.

Improving Healthcare. Doubles funding for NIH medical research on important health issues like cancer, the largest funding increase in NIH history. Creates more than 1,200 new community health centers nationwide to make health care more accessible.

Protecting the Environment. Fully funds the Land and Water Conservation Fund  a $900 million commitment, with more than $8 million targeted for Colorados conservation efforts; gives the EPA the second highest operating budget ever -- $3.7 billion, with an estimated $32.8 million targeted for Colorados environmental efforts; and increases funding for the EPA $56 million above the amount requested by President Clinton.

Colorado Will Benefit from the Presidents Historic Debt Reduction:

The Presidents Budget provides the fastest, largest debt reduction in history and reduces the debt to its lowest share of the economy since World War I, which will benefit Colorado citizens in many important ways.